Mako, a well-trained pup, is a new celebrity, and the film she recently starred in is premiering at the Available Light Film Festival.
an "all-female survivalist fantasy thriller" by the filmmaker. It follows a 10-year-old girl and her polar bear mother who face danger and hardship in a quest to follow the North Star.is a milestone for the Yukon screen industry: the first majority-Yukon-owned feature film shot in the territory.
The film premiered in July at the Fantasia International Film Festival, and it's been on the festival circuit ever since, he said. He's happy Yukoners finally have a chance to see it.Mako, who plays the character of Two Eyes in the dystopian Arctic film Polaris. When the casting call originally came for dogs with two differently coloured eyes, friends who knew Mako sent it to Bell and Hoefs. Given Mako fit the description perfectly, Bell and Hoefs thought she'd be a shoo-in for the part.
The audition itself was no easy feat, though. Mako joined a whole group of dogs being run through their paces.
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